Correspondence from + McQuaid and the other Vicars to Dr. Browne, Maynooth College, regarding his request for permission to apply for the post of President of University College, Galway. 6 items

Copy of the Lenten Pastoral of Bishop Herlihy with covering letter. Galway

Letter from +Browne to +McQuaid thanking him for the work being done in relation to the copying of the documents. Galway will bear all the costs. He is also prepared to answer any questions in relation to problems which may arise during the transcription process. Annotated by +McQuaid.

Note from Mgr. Fitzpatrick to Fr. James Ardle MacMahon stating the Bishop of Galway wishes +McQuaid to contact him. Annotated by Fr. MacMahon.

Copy of typed letter to + Browne, Galway, from +McQuaid. He has had meetings with the Taoiseach, the Tanaiste, the Minister for Justice and the Attorney-General. The possibility of the Mother and Child proposals being accepted by the Cabinet and implemented, as they exist in the Draft, is not even to be considered.

Typed letter from Paddy Crean to Chris informing him that a J. Duffy had been recommended for the post of Resident Architect to the new Galway central hospital. He is an associate of Hilda Verlin, Tun Sen and Toolin, all members of the IWL. He is the ‘genuine article’.

Typed profile of Professor George Thompson, Marxist, Birmingham University. Associated with Muiris O Suilleabhain and stayed at his house in Carrowroe, Co. Galway. Won O Suilleabhain’s son over to Marxism secretly. This boy went to Scoil Enna, Galway, to train as a National Teacher, but was expelled for propagating Communism among students. Now doing degree in Birmingham. Thompson regarded as a decent man and benefactor of Gaeltacht people whom he helps in Birmingham.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from + Michael, Galway, outlining his ideas on the Health Bill.

Copy of lecture by Dr. Felician Prill to the Irish Management Institute, Galway Regional Group, at University College Galway, titled ‘The role of management in the reconstruction of the German economy – a contribution to the strengthening of the Free World. 10/11A. 4-5 April Handwritten letter to Fr. MacMahon from Fr. Thomas Fehily. The German Ambassador made discrete inquiries to Fr. Fehily regarding the presentation of the Grand Cross to +McQuaid.

-1 March Correspondence between +McQuaid, Fr. Gallen, Fr. John Kelly, Fr. John O’Connell, Fr. Patrick Leahy, +W. Philbin, Belfast, +Michael Browne, Galway regarding the papers of the 1968 Maynooth Summer School which are to be published by M.H. Gill. However, Fr. J. Coveney, S.J., Heythorp College has now published one article in the ‘Furrow’ entitled ‘The presence of Christ’. Annotations by +McQuaid. Front Page Detective 1969